June, 2006

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About Joe Stagner - Frustrated by Design !

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Last night I finished my first ATLAS “How Do I Video”.
It took three rounds of feedback from Simon and Scott and about a hundred “takes”.
Usually, when your boss(s) want you to redo something it’s a pain in the...

PowerPoint 2007 ROCKS !!!
I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’m artistically challenged.
I’m a developer, but the foundation of my job at Microsoft is the COMMUNICATION of software Engineering concepts. This might seem like a minor distinction...

Marketing is contest of Words. The very propose of marketing is to present “your thing” in a more favorable light that everyone else’s “thing”.
Doing this effectively seldom includes providing COMPLETE comparative information...

Bill gates appeared on ABC News tonight in a segment on the Imagine Cup. In the clip Bill was talking about the challenges in education and expressed his concern about the relative quality of education in the USA .
Kudos to Bill for this concern...

The geniuses at Business 2.0 Magazine have published an article called 10 people who “Don’t Matter”.
It’s a list of Corporate and Technology Leaders that THEY THINK are no longer significant.
For people that supposedly don’t...

The internet has its down side. Everyone has become the press and people with little or no experience in a particular subject matter can offer “expert” commentary that is then picked up by others and assumed to be factual or accurate,
It’s not like...

From June's 2006 Web Server Survey from Netcraft:
Apache's lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months.
http://news.netcraft.com/

"Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux, a research firm said Monday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060606/tc_cmp/188701822
The Yankee Group made a point of stressing that the survey was not sponsored or supported...

I’m spending as much time as possible these days studying Microsoft ATLAS and will be starting to post ALTAS – How-Do-I Videos at www.ASP.net by next week.
In the meantime the Federal Dev Blog has been posting some great stuff on ATLAS...